Interested candidates should send your resume or LinkedIn profile and work samples to Kadesha Smith: Kadesha@CareContent.com
Web Designer/Developer
Web
Designer/
Developer
The Web Designer/Developer understands the strategy, the intended user experience, and the content, then determines the best format and functionality to serve the content to users, regardless of device and accessibility needs.
This position would start as a contractor, leading to a full-time position.
The Web Designer/Developer is all about making sure that all projects…
- Are compelling for the target audience and the client’s goals
- Deliver a functional, seamless, thoughtful user experience for the target audiences and the client
- Are completed on time with as little drama as possible
Characteristics
- Considers the user experience as the starting point of any project
- Can step into the reality of the target audience and then plan the visuals and functionality to meet the audience’s needs
- Is interested in the clinical, social, financial, and emotional aspects of healthcare
- Can balance working with a team and working independently, without hand-holding or nudging
- Believes missing deadlines without prior notice is completely unprofessional
- Stays in communication with the Project Manager on the status of tasks, change requests, and potential roadblocks that could impact the timeline or scope
- When issues come up, starts with problem-solving and identifying potential solutions
- Is a solid communicator to both CareContent team members and clients about timelines, realistic expectations, barriers, problems, and most importantly, solutions and ideas
Design Duties
- Working closely with the visual designer and UX Content Strategist to create and revise website user interface wireframes and visual design concepts for client projects
- Giving direction to additional contracted web developers
- Collaborates with visual designer to present concepts for review to clients and the internal CareContent team
- Uploading content to content management systems
- Creating and maintaining style sheets for company brand and client blogs
Web Development Duties
- Leading development of new client websites, directories, and resource libraries, including gathering requirements, planning, delegating when needed, and executing
- Collaborating with project manager to create and communicate timelines, project plans, ideas, solutions, and estimated deadlines
- Developing and modifying custom WordPress themes without the use of 3rd party page builders
- Managing hosting, plugin updates, and functionality updates for retainer clients
- Managing web development contractors to maintain or build client websites
- Leading quality assurance testing for new website launches
- Collaborating with UX Content Strategist to conduct user testing testing for websites
- Completing tasks related to maintenance of client and CareContent sites
- Working with visual designer to create web and mobile optimized designs/templates/layouts
- Troubleshooting issues on client and CareContent sites
- Reviewing and approving plugins for sites to ensure they won’t mess up sites
- Provides expertise in creating solutions for projects and stay abreast of relevant topics related to web development that could impact our business
- Builds websites and functionality that are ADA compliant, in partnership with CareContent’s ADA compliance lead
Qualifications/Skills Needed
- Front-end and backend development on WordPress
- Deep experience with Advanced Custom Fields and Gutenberg blocks
- Very comfortable in PHP (7.4 through 8) – troubleshooting, refactoring, writing from scratch
- Experience with WP Engine hosting, Git version control are big bonuses
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Proofreading (nothing too deep, we have a content team)
- Clear communication and follow up
- Google apps (Drive, Gchat, Hangout, Gmail, Analytics)
